Andrew Jackson
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War/Gold Rush
Abolition & Women's Rights
Immigration
100

1. Andrew Jackson claimed to represent the common white man through this idea...

Jacksonian Democracy

100

25. This was discovered on Sutter's Mill, and led to a mass migration into California Territory.

Gold

100

22. This Treaty ended the Mexican-American War.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

100

32. This woman was nicknamed "Black Moses" and was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, making the trip to North and South roughly 20 times.

Harriet Tubman

100

37. Plagued by a Potato Famine, these people were the largest immigration group to the United States in the mid-1800s.

The Irish

200

10. President Jackson enacted this law which allowed for the forced relocation of American Indians.

The Indian Removal Act

200

14. The name of the largest trail Westward, ending in the Northwest United States.

The Oregon Trail

200

23. This sliver of land cost $10 million and consists of parts of New Mexico and Arizona.

The Gadsden Purchase

200

30. These South Carolinian sisters convinced many Southern Christian women to talk about abolition with their husbands.

The Grimke sisters

200

39. These 1-room, cramped living spaces lacked proper sunlight, fresh air, and sanitation. Yet they were the homes for thousands of immigrants.

Tenements

300

5. Jackson did this to the National Bank after he said it "favors on the rich."

Veto

300

14. These people migrated West led by Brigham Young into the Salt Late Territory.

Mormons

300

18. The 9 years that Texas was independent from Mexico and the United States, the Republic went by this name.

Lone Star Republic

300

31. The American Colonization Society founded this colony in West Africa as a home to former enslaved African Americans.

Liberia

300

38. This was the port of entry on the West Coast for most immigrants immigrating from China or Japan.

Angel Island

400

2. The system in which President Jackson hired his friends and followers in government jobs.

The spoils system

400

15. The painting "American Progress" created by John Gast in 1873 features Lady Columbia carrying these two objects.

A book and telegraph Wire

400

20. Texas believed the Mexico border was at the Rio Grande River, while Mexico believed it was at this river.

Nueces River

400

36. This document was written at the Seneca Falls Convention and consists of rights that women fought for at the time.

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

400

40. These people wanted to eliminate foreign influence, refusing to hire immigrants for work and creating the Know-Nothing Party.

Nativists

500

The Native American confederacy that resisted forced relocation by fighting the US Army in Florida?

Seminoles

500

President Polk's slogan for expansion into the Oregon Territory, encouraging a war with Britain.

"54-40 or Fight!"

500

This former President described the Mexican-American War as a “Southern expedition to find bigger pens to cram the slaves.”

John Quincy Adams

500

These rules on Congress forbade representatives to discuss slavery from 1836 to 1844.

"Gag rules"

500

This phenomenon served as a "push factor" for immigration because of the introduction of factories and cheaper production of goods.

The Industrial Revolution

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